Children: Day Care

(asked on 23rd April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will make it his policy to review the early years national funding formula to enable childcare settings to pay graduate-level wages to at least one member of staff.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 1st May 2018

By 2019-20, the government will be spending around £6 billion a year on childcare support, including £1 billion to deliver 30 hours of free childcare and pay the higher funding rates that we introduced in April 2017.

Our funding rates are based on evidence from our ‘Review of Childcare Costs’, which was described as “thorough and wide ranging” by the National Audit Office. Local authorities’ individual funding rates are set by the new early years national funding formula which takes account of relative children’s needs and costs of delivery. It is for providers to determine how best to organise their staffing.

We continue to monitor delivery costs and have commissioned new research to provide us with robust and detailed cost data from a representative sample of early years providers.

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